Sham Shui Po blog 2004...

The Mao to Now exhibition went up on Saturday 28th in Sydney. 

I'm very happy about it. I'm in Hong Kong, so i wasn't at the opening. Mum, Dad, Mick, Imants, Dzidra, Mike & Sylvia, Robert & Dawn were all there. I had two things there, my 'Crimes of my Neighbours' diaries and the collaborative Sham Shui Po website co-curated with 

Chau Yee Mei. 

However there was no video projector for the Sham Shui Po blog,which sits on a computer screen in the corner by the door,  and we didn't have anything spectacular up on the wall to draw people in, and the 'Worksheets' i'd fedex'd over with the site address on them (shamshuipokaifong.org) were behind the table so they wouldn't get wine spilt on them... and the blog/ website address is not in the catalogue, so there is no way for people to find it. I didn't think people would sit down and look at a website during a big art opening, but i hoped they'd notice it and be able to find it later, with the worksheets or from the catalogue. There will be other events though. Different audiences. And it was there, which rocked. Now that we know what the space looks like, we will print up some big versions of the postcards and the worksheets series, and put them up on the wall. There are some other great pieces in the show. A tank by Ian Howard. And a pile of rubble by Paul du Moulin. 

The catalogue version of the name was 'Sham Shui Po blog' (2004) by Chau Yee Mei and Tanya Hart, so I'm going to write it here in case anyone googles it. In fact, is it called Sham Shui Po Kaifong: Creative Dissent, and the blog was created in 2008. The urban renewal project is the thing that started in 2004. 

There are two addresses for the blog. One I bought recently is a forward. When i have time to re-build the website, it will be a site of its own: shamshuipokaifong.org

The other is the straight blogger address: shamshuipokaifong.blogspot.com